A Steampunk Western

Jeffrey Cannata — (Cade Ballard)

JeffAs an actor and comedian in Los Angeles, Jeffrey has built a resume that illustrates range and versatility. On television, he has had recurring roles on soaps like The Bold and the BeautifulGeneral Hospital, and The Young and the Restless, as well as family fare like Nickelodeon’s Just for Kicks. His numerous national and regional commercials include products as varied as Coors Light, Coldwell Banker, Disney, and the Apple iPhone.

Jeffrey also has extensive stage credits, performing seasons with the Texas and Nevada Shakespeare Festivals, The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, and northern California’s Theatreworks, where he won a Dean Goodman Award for the role of Chris in Arthur Miller’s All My Sons. Jeff played the title character in the world premiere comedy, The Psychic, and the rock star Johnny in Dissonance, both at Gary Marshall’s Falcon Theatre.  Most recently, Jeffrey played Garry/Roger in Noises Off at the Norris Center.

 Jeff performs live comedy as well, producing and starring in The Returning Champs , an improvisational comedy troupe that has appeared at venues such as Hollywood’s IO West, Santa Monica’s Westside Eclectic, and the LA Comedy Festival.

With stand up comedian Christian Spicer, Jeff created Double Jump, the live late night comedy show which has played to sold out audiences at the popular Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theater.

As co-creator and host of the wildly successful net talk show, The Totally Rad Show, Jeff has become a recognized web personality and an authority on movies, video games, television, and comics for the hundreds of thousands of fans who watch the show.  TRS has been honored with Webby and Podcast awards, and was called “the best weekly video podcast – period” by Wired Magazine.

Jeff was LA correspondent for Reviews on the Run, the G4 network’s daily media review program, for over 300 episodes, and has guest hosted on /FilmThis Week in Tech, TechzillaBreaking it Down with Catherine Reitman, and Attack of the Show, among many others.

Jeff is also co-host of Weekend Confirmed for Shacknews.com, a weekly video game talk show widely regarded as one of the industry leaders, and, most recently, has joined CNET’s Always On with Molly Wood.

  • photo from Tumblr

    A handful of great shots from our last day of filming on Cowboys & Engines.  

    From the top…

    • Libby Letlow & Richard Hatch as Guinivere Wheeler & Cade Ballard
    • Producer Charles Mead
    • Jib operator Dana Anderson, DP Hollywood Heard, and Director Bryn Pryor (without beard after stunt-doubling for Richard)
    • Libby waiting to get shot at
    • Cade & Guinivere under cover
    • Mark Whitten as the Myrmidon
    • Guinivere gets ready to gallop away

    Thanks to our amazing unit photographer Ben Hoffman.


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